Diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay using urine samples

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 789-794

  Islam, Mohammad Zahidul ^a   Itoh, Makoto ^a   Shamsuzzaman, S M ^a   Mirza, Rusella ^a   Matin, Farzana ^a   Ahmed, Iftikhar ^a   Shamsuzzaman Choudhury, A K M ^a   Akram Hossain, M ^a   Qiu, Xu Guang ^a   Begam, Nilufar ^a   Furuya, Masato ^a   Leafasia, Judson L ^a   Hashiguchi, Yoshihisa ^a   Kimura, Eisaku ^a  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; PARASITE ANTIGEN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; GLYCOPROTEIN GP63, LEISHMANIA; METALLOPROTEINASE; PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEISHMANIA DONOVANI; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; TUBERCULOSIS; URINALYSIS; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS; WESTERN BLOTTING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; URINE;

ACETONE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; ANTIGENS, PROTOZOAN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; METALLOENDOPEPTIDASES; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0036068278     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CDLI.9.4.789-794.2002     Document Type: Article

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